The Pensacola Quilter’s Guild quilt show preview is tonight. I am so excited! It has been a wonderful 2 days getting everything set-up for the show. I am so glad that I was able to take time off of work. It is amazing the number of people it takes and the organization needed to pull it off. My hat is off to Angie, our show chairman, for her amazing job.
Bits & Pieces
Show week has begun
Published on 02/21/10
The Pensacola Quilter’s Guild show week has begun. The quilts were all turned in yesterday and I am hoping everyone got their’s done. We are going to have over 200 judged quilts! I have entered 4 quilts. Two of the quilts are new the other 2 were made the year before.
I am hoping to be part of the judging process on Monday. We start setting up on Wednesday. We are going to have an official “ribbon-cutting” Thursday night at the preview. I will enjoy seeing the quilts that night – the rest of the show I will be in the classroom. Emilie has the last part of the week off school so she can help and enjoy being part of the madness. (That is one of the many joys of home-schooling.)
Here are pictures of the quilts that I entered.
“In Her Arms” 2009
“Serenity” 2009
“In the Garden I” 2010
“Hummingbirds in my Garden” (whole cloth) 2010
Show time
Published on 02/12/10
I have finished the quilts for the Pensacola Quilter’s Guild Show that is being held February 26-28th. The quilts have to be turned in next week – so cutting it a little close. I am looking forward to reading the judges comments – good or bad. We have a national judge coming in for the show – Scott Murkin. The large shows that I enter in do not have the opportunity (time) for comments, so I am going to make good use of anything he takes time to say. He actually was one of the judges at the show I entered “In Her Arms” into last summer.
My next project is putting together a lecture on color – one of my favorite topics. I am hoping to get several small sample quilts made for it. I will post pictures of my progress.
I am also brain-storming for my next big quilt. I am thinking it will be of a butterfly but am having a hard time with what technique to use – curved piecing or fibers. Maybe I will have to do one of each!
Quilting
Published on 01/23/10
I have been working on my next show quilt and actually see the end in sight. I figure it will take close to 30 hours to quilt by the time I am done. I took a chance and used a black polyester batting for this quilt and am having a little trouble with pucker on the top. I am telling my that it is just “adding texture”. We will see what the judge thinks about it. Here is a picture of the quilting on the back of the quilt.
I have been feeling the need to touch some new fabric and have the perfect excuse for it – my newest nephew was born today. This is idea for a quilt for him. I am still working on color placement.
Blocking my Quilt
Published on 12/31/09
It is finally done and I am blocking the quilt. I can now say that I did a large whole-cloth quilt! It is wet – that is why the picture looks so shiny.
I have the backing and batting ready for my next project. I will be starting the quilting on my curve-pieced lily hopefully this weekend. I am a little tentative about it because I bought a batik for the backing and a black polyester batting. I am following , “you never know until you try”, but this is really hard to do this on a contest quilt.